Vanderlande Industries - Software Development Manager

Development Manager

Would prefer Female candidates for this role.

Relevant Experience Required

- 12- 18 years of overall experience, with minimum 5- 7 years in senior technical and operational leadership roles managing software development teams or departments delivering high- performance, low- latency, enterprise- grade software products.

- Proven experience in strategic oversight, workforce management, and execution excellence within a scaled Agile environment, preferably in a product- led, platform- oriented organization.

Required Skills & Competencies

Education & Technical Foundation

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent.

- Minimum 4+ years hands- on experience as a Software Engineer or Architect working with Java- based enterprise applications.

- Strong grounding in enterprise software architecture, distributed systems, and cloud- native development.

Delivery Leadership

- Ability to define, articulate, and execute improvement areas aligned with organizational and product vision.

- Proven experience driving MVP/MVO delivery, ensuring predictable outcomes using delivery metrics across velocity, quality, and throughput.

- Strong analytical mindset to balance technical excellence with pragmatic delivery in complex environments.

- Experience influencing direction in collaboration with Solution and Software Architects.

People Leadership & Workforce Management

- Demonstrated ability to motivate, coach, and grow high- performing teams, fostering an environment where individuals and teams can reach their full potential.

- Experience managing 4+ Scrum teams and 30+ engineers, including performance management, career development, PDPs, and PIPs.

- Hands- on experience with hiring, onboarding, offboarding, and capacity planning in collaboration with HR.

- Strong people leadership presence with the ability to build high- performance, inclusive team cultures.

Agile, DevOps & Continuous Improvement

- Minimum 3+ years of experience working in Agile/Scrum environments, with strong coaching capability in Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe.

- Strong advocate of continuous improvement across people, processes, and tools.

- Experience facilitating Agile ceremonies and driving consistent ways of working across teams.

- Product development background with DevOps and automation- first mindset is a strong plus.

- Experience delivering software with high levels of test and deployment automation (CI/CD).

Technology & Architecture

- Expert knowledge of event- driven, domain- driven architectures using microservices and ubiquitous language.

- Working knowledge of containerized application development and deployment on cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, etc.) using Kubernetes.

- Experience with enterprise- scale systems and cloud- native platforms.

- Familiarity with TDD/BDD practices and modern engineering best practices is a plus.

- Warehouse automation or logistics domain knowledge is a plus.

Stakeholder, Risk & Escalation Management

- Strong stakeholder management skills with experience collaborating closely with RTEs, Leads, CPO's and Architecture teams.

- Acts as a primary escalation point for delivery, people, and technical risks; proactively mitigates impediments.

- Ability to clearly represent both business and technology perspectives across the SDLC.

- Strong communication, collaboration, and presentation skills; capable of influencing across a matrixed, multinational organization.

Tools & Ways of Working

- Working experience with Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.) is a plus.

- Strong understanding of SDLC best practices, including coding standards, reviews, source control, testing, and operations.

Additional Requirements

- Strong English communication skills (written and verbal).

- Ability to operate effectively in a fast- paced environment with competing priorities.

- Willingness to travel internationally (10- 30%).